Information Circular 9403: Design Practices for Multiple-Seam Room-and-Pillar Mines

Details

• Personal Author:
  Chekan, Gregory J. ; Listak, Jeffrey M.
• Description:
  Effective mine planning and design is essential for avoiding ground problems related to multiple-seam interactions. The U.S. Bureau of Mines, as part of its mission to improve coal conservation and utilization, has been investigating multiple-seam room-and-pillar designs to increase coal recovery and reduce interactions between operations. This report presents design practices when using room-and-pillar methods in the multiple-seam environment and is a review of relevant literature on multiple-seam ground control, mine planning, and mine design. Its objective is to provide mine planners and operators with practical guidelines and information to design sale and productive mines. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining Coal-seams Design-criteria Mineral-industries Room-and-pillar-mining Strata-control Subsidence Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  50 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10005478
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95-103651
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9403, 1994 Jan; :1-44
• Contact Point Address:
  Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9403
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cea329f1a3e14cb355366354f44108d30ccfd073b987ffa1a1d421915b7379cc05230a62e9481771ae21012074935b46b03c77a6198bc2a9ca59facffb593cc1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206097/cdc_206097_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.13 MB ]